Well, the nice thing is that the author may be getting some of his smart friends back, now that Wall Street has overreached.

Perhaps some of the statisticians will come back to work on fundamentally (as opposed to monetarily) interesting problems, more of the sharp deal-makers will again be available for non-financial-sector positions, and the equilibrium to which the author alludes will briefly allow for a bit of overcorrection in favor of societal benefit.

It's a bit optimistic, to be sure, but not impossible.